In 1607, after a excursion of 144 days, 3 ships headed by Captain Christopher Newport carrying 105 group as good as boys done their first landfall in a New World where a Atlantic Ocean meets a southern mouth of a Chesapeake Bay in a northeastern biased of a city. They declared it Cape Henry, after Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, a eldest son of King James I of England. However, these English colonists of a Virginia Company of London left a area, as they were underneath orders to find a site offer inner that would be some-more easeful from ships of competing European countries. They combined their first permanent allotment during Jamestown. Adam Thoroughgood (1604-1640) of King's Lynn, Norfolk, England is a forlorn of a beginning Englishmen to compromise in a area that became Virginia Beach. At a age of 18, he became an indentured menial to compensate for highway to a Virginia Colony. He fitting his convenience as good as became a heading adult of a area. In 1629, he was inaugurated to a House of Burgesses for Elizabeth Cittie [sic], a forlorn of 4 "citties" (or incorporations) that were subdivided areas determined in 1619. In 1634, a Colony was at large distant in to a bizarre 8 shires of Virginia, shortly renamed as counties. Thoroughgood is credited with regulating a name of his home in England when assisting name "New Norfolk County" in 1637. The following year, New Norfolk County was separate in to Upper Norfolk County (soon renamed Nansemond County) as good as Lower Norfolk County. Thoroughgood's gratification of chateau after 1634 was along a Lynnhaven River, additionally declared for his home in England. Lower Norfolk County was rsther than large, as good as spread out all a approach from a Atlantic Ocean west past a Elizabeth River, encompassing a complete area right away inside of a complicated cities of Portsmouth, Norfolk, Chesapeake, as good as Virginia Beach. In 1691, Lower Norfolk County was at large distant to form Norfolk County as good as Princess Anne County. Princess Anne, a easternmost county in South Hampton Roads, extended northward from a North Carolina extent to Cape Henry during a mouth of a Chesapeake Bay, as good as enclosed all of a area contra a Atlantic Ocean. Princess Anne County was to final from 1691 to 1963, over 250 years.